Caz,.. I'm pretty sure that most chrome moly pitons have been heat-treated, a torch is defiantly a bad idea, and I wouldn't recommend a grinder either as the steel will become either soft, or brittle depending on how it's cooled after cutting.A hack saw is the best way, and really doesn't take that long at all. When one of my regular pins gets mangled, I saw it off, file it.. and it becomes a shorty, it seems to keep me well supplied as I have only ever bought a few that were short to begin with.

Why don't you just phone around some local machine shops, find someone with a saw who will cut them for you? Save you a hella lota work with a hacksaw.

Lot less work than humping one of your pigs to the base of a wall. Get a fresh blade, I can cut one in 5 minutes, five. If anyone is really that lazy get a fucking die grinder with a cut wheel, 30 freeking seconds, and you don't need a vise.

I even have a buddy with a machine shop. industrial band saw, the kind that automatically delivers cutting oil to the piece,etc., but I wouldn't even bother going there to use it because... *seriously*, as Rags said,"Get a fresh blade", and it' so easy that I'll do 2-3 cuts on a single pin that I want shape/point, to save on grinding/filing.

I used a hacksaw. It was like butter! Probably a special blade - it was painted white and had fine and hard teeth. I borrowed it from a plumber friend who knows what's up. He said it was the best hacksaw and blade you can get. I also had to go over to another friend's house to cut the angles, since I didn't have a robust vice fixed to the workbench.